Re: Windres gives parsing errors when resource names begin with underscores

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Millenomi,

> I was using a mingw cross-compiler to develop a game for Windows that
> would target XP and Vista (among other platforms, thanks to SDL).
> Vista requires, for games to appear in the Game Explorer window, that
> a resource is included in the .exe file, among other things. The
> resource must be named __GDF_XML (and be of the user type DATA), but
> windres complains (parse error on line:...) when compiling a .rc file
> such as:
>
> __GDF_XML DATA MyVistaGameDefinitionFile.xml

> Can it be changed so that this works?

Possibly.  Would you like to try out this (untested) patch and see if it 
works for you ?

Cheers
  Nick


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! [A-Za-z][^ ,\t\r\n]*	{
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  			    }
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! [_A-Za-z][^ ,\t\r\n]*	{
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  			  /* I rejected comma in a string in order to